Just part of the E-Mail Generation

The generalional divide is IM/E-Mail -- at least according to this AP Poll.

We've been trying rather unsuccessfully to get a group of newsroom managers to use IM as a speedier way to communicate about breaking news internally. We're in a business where minutes matter. Maybe this explains it. All the recalcitrants are over-40. IM is too far across their generational divide? Early onset of old-fartitis, perhaps.

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Image by jdlasica via FlickrPay attention to what Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker says.That was a bit of advice that Bill Tallent, CEO of Mercury Intermedia, told the audience last Friday at "Smart Phones for Smart Journalists" at the John Seigenthaler...